While Bristol endured its worst raid of the war in March last a woman lay trapped under a beam in a bomb-shattered basement, A doctor sat at her side, She was about to have a baby.
"The bomb that trapped her had killed her husband, killed her little daughter.
The doctor was there to save her life and her unborn child's, Men toiled around 4o shift the beam. Masses of brickwork had to be moved first; otherwise they might fall on the mother, "While the men worked, while bombs whistled and crashed, while guns barked, the doctor watched in the dim, shaded light, In mercy he kept the trapped woman unconscious, Carefully he watched for the times to give her more anesthetic, They were in the cellar for hours, But at last the masonry was shifted, the beam was moved, The mother was taken out—alive, Greathearts of Bristol did more than endure the THE SINK LEAKS IT'S BEST TD FIND IT OUT
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